Ex-banker Enters Plea

December 18, 1986

William G. Patterson, the former energy lending chief at the failed Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City, pleaded innocent Wednesday in U.S. District Court here to charges of defrauding Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago. Two other defendants in the case, Oklahoma oilman Jere Sturgis and former Continental lending officer John R. Lytle, entered the same plea earlier. Attorneys said the case is expected to come to trial in April before federal Judge Milton Shadur.